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The human foramen magnum is anteriorly inclined and, with the occipital condyles, is forwardly located on a broad, short and flexed basicranium; the petrous elements are coronally rotated; the glenoid region is topographically complex; the nuchal lines are low; and the nuchal plane is horizontal.\n                    <jats:italic>Australopithecus afarensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    (3.7\u20133.0 Ma) is the earliest known species of the australopith grade in which the adult cranial base can be assessed comprehensively. This region of the adult skull was known from fragments in the 1970s, but renewed fieldwork beginning in the 1990s at the Hadar site, Ethiopia (3.4\u20133.0 Ma), recovered two nearly complete crania and major portions of a third, each associated with a mandible. These new specimens confirm that in small-brained, bipedal\n                    <jats:italic>Australopithecus<\/jats:italic>\n                    the foramen magnum and occipital condyles were anteriorly sited, as in humans, but without the foramen's forward inclination. In the large male A.L. 444-2 this is associated with a short basal axis, a bilateral expansion of the base, and an inferiorly rotated, flexed occipital squama\u2014all derived characters shared by later australopiths and humans. However, in A.L. 822-1 (a female) a more primitive morphology is present: although the foramen and condyles reside anteriorly on a short base, the nuchal lines are very high, the nuchal plane is very steep, and the base is as relatively narrow centrally. A.L. 822-1 illuminates fragmentary specimens in the 1970s Hadar collection that hint at aspects of this primitive suite, suggesting that it is a common pattern in the\n                    <jats:italic>A. afarensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    hypodigm. We explore the implications of these specimens for sexual dimorphism and evolutionary scenarios of functional integration in the hominin cranial base.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1098\/rstb.2010.0070","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,9,20]],"date-time":"2010-09-20T03:46:43Z","timestamp":1284954403000},"page":"3365-3376","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":59,"title":["The cranial base of\n                    <i>Australopithecus afarensis<\/i>\n                    : new insights from the female skull"],"prefix":"10.1098","volume":"365","author":[{"given":"William H.","family":"Kimbel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yoel","family":"Rak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"175","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,10,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_3_2_1","first-page":"77","article-title":"Der Formwandel des Primaten-Sch\u00e4dels und seine Beziehungen zur ontogenetischen Entwicklung und den phylogenetischen Specialization der Kopforgane","volume":"98","author":"Biegert J.","year":"1957","journal-title":"Morph. 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